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Title: Wayside poems for old and young
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Van Slyke, Elmer W., 1861-
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Publisher: Binghamton, N.Y., Chronicle Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Adown the glen in a bosky dell When the evening shades are falling, I hear the sounds of a distant bell,And the voice of the farmer calling. Co, boss! CO, boss! They come up the laneFrom the depths of the dusky dingle— Star and Pansy, and Spot and Jane,And Bess with her bell a jingle. Anon I hear from the farmyard rise, Hist! so there, and stop yer switchin! Come up here Billy, an mind these flies.An stop this rarin an pitchin! Sich tarnal cows I never did see.There goes her foot in the bucket. Whack! Ill lam ye to kick onto me.Youll regret that you undertuck it.
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So there, Jane, you had better stand still! Comes to me over the paling.Say, maw, I hear in a treble ?hrill, Paw just gave Pansy a whaling. Come, Johnny! its time you was in bed.An wash your feet you young Paddy? Tom! what ye doin out in the shed?You oughter be helpin yer daddy. Whay! Git along there, you ugly thing.Youre alius bound to be hookin— Sary, fetch some water from the spring!Gin we do our mornin cookin. ** Well, mother, I guess the chores are done— O, no, I forgot the chickens—I must be up two hours before sun; I tell ye farmins the dickens. V\\t Saul Mysterious origin of the soul!I he inner self that grows into our livesTo make us higher than the other beasts;For beasts we are, save for the Divine sparkThat, breathed from the Creator, blends with life-And 3^et a life within itself complete.A guardian angel chained unto a beastTo make him more God-like while here he livesAnd bid him know there is a God in Heaven.Purel)^ it pleads within the carnate heartAnd is not sti

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